Kevin Werbach writes on the worth-watching Supernova blog about “the next communications network”:

“WiFi is taking off as a grassroots phenomenon. More users leads to more access points, which leads to WiFi being built into more devices, which pushes down costs, etc. With enough density, WiFi could be the basis for the phone and broadband network of the future.”

This reinforces what Nicholas Negroponte was saying in his WiReD piece “Lilypads and Frogs” that got me thinking back in September. I clumsily married some of these things together, along with some carfreeLondon in a talk I gave on the “hypermobility” track of the “beyond the Backlash” thinktankathon, entitled “DIYfrastructure” [1.8mb powerpoint in need of annotation]

Also – Danny’s writing about the idea that was at the core of our carfreeLondon proposal:

“I think [the] largest hurdle public transport has to overcome, I think, is the feeling of powerlessness and unpredictability it induces in most people. I think you can go a long way to reducing that – without requiring any heavy initial investments in public transport itself, by harnassing this new tech.”

I made a very brief talk about at this the social software summit in NYC: DevelopingBlurryspace/Blurrytime: giving people control over their time and space through technology. More on this later. There was a somewhat similar presentation which was a little higher on style than substance by someone from Ivrea entitled “Fluidtime” at Doors7.